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If you are making up pearls and clasps for your own pleasure you go right ahead and do what you want. It is really only we trade people who are expected to match up quality of clasp with quality of pearl.

You probably have in mind the pearl cleaning cloths made by a company around 25 miles away from me https://www.towntalkpolish.com/product/pearl-care-kit-wallet And if you are going to wear strung pearls in sweaty weather consider an artificial silk when you next get them re-strung.

That is not an independent laboratory report.

I think every one of us will have a different method of knotting. Either completely different (you and me) or very slightly as we evolve with practice. How other people knot always fascinates me. I can't resist videoing when I get the chance.

Pattye is the resident knotting and thread expert here. As well as being all-round amazing.

Can you take some photos the next time you get fraying. I'm struggling to understand how knots fray.

I'm still thinking they are over-complicated, design-y and fussy and not very wearable.

I did the same a few years ago...I've lost the photo from eBay but these were the sorry pearls which arrived, purporting to be AAA gold SS.

I strongly suspect every pearl in that shop is freshwater. Loved the square akoya! The gold are undoubtedly dyed Edisons or unbranded bead nuked (but let's be honest, Edison/Grace is churning out thousands of strands of dyed faked up south sea, tahitians and akoya)

The only photo not by me in my book is Steve's photo of this sumptuous necklace. It's so beautiful and I hate the thought of it -or any necklace - languishing in the dark in a vault, unadmired.

If the clasps are marked 10K that means they are not of UK origin. UK gold is 9ct, 12ct, 18ct

The risk with buying a Mikimoto 'brand' piece is that there is no guarantee that the pearls which are on that clasp and in that box started out with the clasp and box. Even if you go to Mikimoto to get them inspected they can only suck their teeth and say the pearls are the right quality etc for...

Two completely different species of mollusc.

Freshwater pearls dyed gold often have a brownish tinge to the gold when viewed en masse. Not so much when looking at one or two pearls.

If they were re-strung with a just off-white thread they would look whiter. That thread is wearing thin and looks yuck. Suspect they need a good wash too, as they are visibly more yellow than the two pearls on the (very nice) clasp.

I just re-read my post. We is we pearl sellers collectively. I'm over the sea, I'm not Pearl Paradise

Why not ask for comparison photos - Pearl Paradise has a great photo studio and can do stills and video. (pearls absorb more than water. They soak up perfumes. We still remember with horror a necklace which came back for re-stringing and reeked of a particularly pungent scent) Have a think...

I HATE making multi strand pieces so I am double impressed with the colour switch thrown casually in too.

Sorry. Your post read to me as a bit sneery. So I got defensive.. It was an amazing time. First pic is the remote Indonesian island pearl farm and second an akoya farm in vietnam - i'm harvesting pearls and assessing them for size and quality for selection as mantle graft material

Not funny at all. It is why I went. No better way to learn and understand how it all works. I didn't want simply to walk around like some royal visitor, nodding, smiling and waving.